The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh fired back on Tuesday at critics who expressed concern about the methods he had employed during the making of his hit comedy film, “Am I Racist?” — namely that he had “lied” to the “unwitting stars” who made his film possible.
Walsh was responding to those like Denny Burk, who argued in an op-ed titled, “Is ‘owning the libs’ a justification for lying?” that the film “opened up a conversation about the ethics of deception and lying when doing so for an ostensibly good cause.”
But as Walsh pointed out in a lengthy X post, the reason he had to go to such lengths to expose the unwitting main characters — in both “Am I Racist?” and “What is a Woman?” — was that he was dealing with people who would never intentionally reveal themselves.
As there’s a lot of conversation about it today, I will say one more thing about the…